missed Quick features

[Peter Bateman]

I knew someone who stayed with the  Quick defaults. He put in extensive 
DESCRIPTION of SCREEN and of FIELD statements.

He would give the users 3 things:-
1) a user's logon  that took him directly in to the application and signed 
him off when he exited Quick.
2) a screen map
3) a copy of "Your Guide to QUICK Screens"

Now you can see the rational for staying with the defaults. THe guide refers 
to them!

When a user asked 'How do I use it?' He replied  "Signon and hit ??."


Developers of new systems often overlook the following default features and 
users miss them.

1) Rapid fire entry. Most users can enter data without seeing their Quick 
screens e.g. 2;xtddf;sss;UR

2) Duplicate key ( _ )

3) select on a sub string  usually %@some_string@

4) In-field editing ( Cntrl-B )

5) Generic key retrieval ( ..@ )

6) SKIP REST OF OCCURRENCE (/) and SKIP ALL (//)

7) GO TO STOPSCREEN ( ^^^ )

9) BACKWARD Retrieval ( \  )

Regards,
Peter

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